Word meanings
- dravya-yajñāḥ
- offering one’s own wealth as sacrifice
- tapaḥ-yajñāḥ
- offering severe austerities as sacrifice
- yoga-yajñāḥ
- performance of eight-fold path of yogic practices as sacrifice
- tathā
- thus
- apare
- others
- swādhyāya
- cultivating knowledge by studying the scriptures
- jñāna-yajñāḥ
- those offer cultivation of transcendental knowledge as sacrifice
- ca
- also
- yatayaḥ
- these ascetics
- sanśita-vratāḥ
- observing strict vows
Translations
Others again offer wealth, austerity, and Yoga as sacrifice, while ascetics of self-restraint and rigid vows offer the study of scriptures and knowledge as sacrifice.
Others offer as their sacrifice wealth, austerities, and meditation. Monks, wedded to their vows, renounce their scriptural learning and even their spiritual powers.
Similarly, others are performers of sacrifices through wealth, through austerity, through yoga, and through study and knowledge; others are ascetics with severe vows.
दूसरे कितने ही तीक्ष्ण व्रत करनेवाले प्रयत्नशील साधक द्रव्य-सम्बन्धी यज्ञ करनेवाले हैं, और कितने ही तपोयज्ञ करनेवाले हैं, और दूसरे कितने ही योगयज्ञ करनेवाले हैं, तथा कितने ही स्वाध्यायरूप ज्ञानयज्ञ करनेवाले हैं।Commentary
Some do sacrifice by distributing their wealth to the deserving as charity some offer their Tapas (austerities) as sacrifice some practise the eight limbs of Raja Yoga, viz.? Yama (the five great vows)? Niyama (the canons of conduct)? Asana (posture)? Pranayama (restraint of breath)? Pratyahara (withdrawal of the senses)? Dharana (concentration)? Dhyana (meditation) and Samadhi (superconscious state), and offer this Yoga as a sacrifice some study the scriptures and offer it as sacrifice.